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We aim to empower young people through social lessons and career training which are much enhanced for young adults to apply to their daily lives. Please read more below about how Life Skills students benefit from their social education classes and career opportunity lessons for the last quarter containing positive impacts.

Lesson Benefits

In the last quarter, our life skill students from 4th generation gained different knowledge and experience from their final steps. In the following, you will see what they learnt.

Drug Lesson:Life skills students get in deep about disadvantages of using drug. Moreover, students realize more about cause and effect of having during their study and having hatred from their surrounding and people.

Job announcement, writing CV and Cover letter: Life skills students defined difficult terms and key words in each announcement and are aware of job requirement, responsibility and dead line. Furthermore, the students are fully able to create their own CV and know how to write their own cover letter after life skills trainer had lectured.

Internet and email as well as power point: Students are able to create their own gmail, yahoo to send their CV and cover letter and students can make their own slide to do presentation for their assignment.

Being employee and Rehearsal interview Session:  Students realize about time management, punctuality, commitment, honesty and work under pressure condition at workplace that brings them to be an excellent employee. In additionally, students were informed about related tasks in hotel industry such as front desk task, restaurant task and housekeeping task.  Students got feedback from interviewers such as how to write a formal CV and Cover, how to dress nicely for interview as well as how to answer the questions suitably and the manner, characteristic and facial expression.

Vocational Visit and Presentation: Life skills students felt delighted to see that vocational training because it has useful courses such as Hospitality, Food and beverage, sewing project and cooking class for them to learn so that they are able to get benefits appropriately. Life skills students are able present their slides with different topics in among of students for each class and are able to answer the questions from students appropriately.

Final Trip and New Recruitment: Life skills students were happy for their final trip with their new experience of doing teambuilding game. As a result, they realize that teamwork can make them achieve their goal. 30 students for 5^th generation of life skill students were recruited for new classes 2016.

Successful Graduation

In late February 2016, our 4th generation students of life skill finished their training course. As the result, 27 students graduated successfully from the program.

One student, Reaksmey shared his feelings about the benefits from the life skill program after he graduated successfully.

“My name is Reaksmey. I am 20 years old. I’m a student that study English and life skill too in Salariin Kampuchea. For studying life skill I never know about it before. I always think that “what is life skill?” So when study it I know a lot of experiences and two main points that important for me like social education and career training. One thing I know how to become a good student or a good person in the life. And then I know how to do working in group. I can say that learning life skill is important for our lives and it has a lot of actions and chances like visiting hotels, vocational training schools and other places. I have more opportunity about employment and work experience, too.

Finally, I feel that I gain a lot from the life skill program if I compare to the past that I did not join the program. I would recommend to next generation in Salariin Kampuchea should learn it all together because it important for themselves. Why? Because it helps us to know about ourselves and future employment”.

Cooking Class

In February, our 4^th generation students of life skill program attended in practical cooking class. Our former student, Sal shared her skill and experience to school mates and next generation. The students are able to cook Amok “Khmer Food”. They felt excited with their first achievement of cooking food by them. Students were eager to learn in order to cook for their family and friends.

Another student, Bunthoeun shared his feelings about the benefits cooking class.

“I think cooking class is good because it brings us to know our former student, good relationship and we can gain cooking skill that we never know before. I am very happy that I can cook Amok. I will make it for my parents and relatives. Thanks to older student, Sal for her skill and sharing to us. Esp thanks to teachers and Salariin Kampuchea who arranged it for us”

In the coming three months, we are planning to start new life skill classes for 5^th generation. We will bring them to visit a hotel to see the reality of work and how hotel industry operating. We will conduct communication, presentation, and self-esteem sessions as well as food and drink.

We are very proud to have provided this extremely valuable course, and we would like to thank all donors again who have supported us through GlobalGiving. With the help and support of our partners at GlobalGiving, and you, we hope to keep building on this and moving forward with our personal and career training program for young adult empowerment.

Warm regards, 

The Salariin Kampuchea Team

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We aim to empower young people through social lessons and career training which are much enhanced for young adults to apply to their daily lives. Please read more below about how Life Skills students benefit from their start up social education and career opportunity lessons for the last quarter containing positive impacts.

Graduation Celebration Party

In the last three months, we offered 23 certificates to 3^rd generation of Life skills students who graduated successfully from their program. Congratulation for their success.

Social Lessons:

In this quarter, our young adults have a great time, gain knowledge and experience from lessons and workshop in the training course. Those include a family planning session, the students realized about importance of organizing or setting a plan for their future’s husband and wife whether when they appropriately choose to get married. Furthermore, they also catch up about having a baby for their family whenever they are fully able to feed their babies and provide happiness for their families. Also the students are offered the domestic violence lesson, they are aware of cause and effect of having domestic violence such as poverty, uneducated people, jealousy, no tolerance in the family and do not provide fully rights for their partners for their living. Thus, they consider and reflect these issues to their society where they are living.

Other 3 sessions with bullying lesson, saving money, and family and environment lesson, the students realize about closely relationship with their classmates and are not harmful to the others because it causes to their friend/classmate’s study or feeling. They also got a new way or technique to keep their money not only safe but also get interest and benefit from it by creating new account at the bank or use their money to raise any animals to sell for their own study. Furthermore, they understand about interrelationship between family and environment. They know that people who live by them are vital to them and their families because if their surrounded people are illiterate, gambling and use the drug, certainly, it will affect to their siblings or relatives of their families. Thus, they think that both family and environment are very important for them.

Traffic Workshop

Not only life skills students but also English students are very interested in this workshop because this new traffic law for 2016 is very strict and traffic policy will fine to whom do not obey the new traffic law as well as articles. Therefore, both of them raised up a lot of questions related to traffic article in order to avoid from fining and traffic accident. They are aware of traffic signs, realize about general accident caused by traffic and number of death and injuries.

“My name is Chantha. I am 19 years old and I am a student of Salariin Kampuchea organization. Bellow, I am writing about my feeling that I joined workshop that talking about traffic law of Cambodia. So I can say that the traffic law it is very important that the people need to know and follow the rule for all because every day you travel on the road in order to avoid accident, reduce accident and especially it is protecting your life so we have to realize it.

This workshop is interesting because when I join I have gained my knowledge such as how to use the road properly, how to avoid from accident and especially I have known a lot about road signs, law of fines and punishment. I also realize about accident and injured figure data happening in Cambodia. 

For me, when I follow the signs and traffic law, I am protecting myself and my life. This is the first workshop for me that I have never attended before. Thanks for the school that arranged it for us”.

In the coming three months, we are planning to visit a hotel, conduct drug lesson, how job announcement, writing CV and Cover letter read. We will also provide social media lessons, internet and email, PowerPoint presentation, how to be the best employee and hotel department, rehearsal interview, cooking class, visit Siem Reap vocational training, final trip for life skills project and coach and mentor life skills students before graduated.

We are very proud to have provided this extremely valuable course, and we would like to thank all donors again who have supported us through Global Giving. With the help and support of our partners at Global Giving, and you, we hope to keep building on this and moving forward with our personal and career training program for young adult empowerment.

Warm regards, 

The Salariin Kampuchea Team

Links:

• See more about Salariin Kampuchea
• See recent activities on our Facebook